It's been five long years of blogging the Trump years. We've laughed, we've cried, we've pulled some of our remaining hair out, but we've made it. It is almost done and our democracy, nation, and souls are still largely intact. Unfortunately, we're not through.There is much more to come as we stitch ourselves back together like some kind of common Frankenstein monster as we recover from the PTSD that Trump gave us and the needless deaths and suffering from #COVID19. We also have to keep #BidenHarris honest & progressive, oppose Republican obstructionism anti-democratic tendencies, and whatever other black swans await us. All of which will be addressed using good old-fashioned snarcky, sarcasticky, profaney fun and psychological insights.
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The individual causes of violence made the mass shooting at Club Q preventable. If conservatives not engaged in the systemic promotion of violence, it probably wouldn’t’ve happened. These shootings are a choice.
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It was quite the mystery. What could’ve happened to that kidney stone that we discovered hanging in my ureter on 31 October? By 15 November, it was no where to be found. The doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists, insurance agents, and everyone were baffled.
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That’s the boogeyman that Republican mothers and fathers have been scaring their children with by telling them that it is lurking under their beds and inside their closets and will take them away if they aren’t good and give all their money to the very very rich millionaires and billionaires who feel like they don’t have enough and deserve even more.
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The problem with the Republicans and their authoritarian pusch is that voters, and I mean white voters, won’t punish them for their anti-democratic ways. We see it EVERY election, a majority of white voters vote fascist.
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If America is ever going to make a more perfect union, white people have to confront their inner racist and make peace with whatever the fuck it is that responds to the GQP’s dog whistling Southern Strategy politics.
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There’s a new regularly irregular column at Ye Olde Blogge about all the goings on behind the scenes! I’ve been pretty absent lately, here’s a wee peek into why and what’s more to come.
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Using recent sociological research into gaslighting, we gain insights into how Trump gaslit MAGA Nation, the Republican Party, and the nation.
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Gaslighting is now the subject of sociological research. Several key ingredients have been established that allow gaslighting to occur. Yes, they are what you think they would be. In part 2, we apply them to Trump!
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The GQP has unleashed a ravening beast to feed upon our democracy. To satisfy its appetite for extremism, the GQP must become even more divisive, so it will be religion as the driver until we get widespread violence.
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With Giorgia Meloni ascending to be PM of Italy and conservative America suddenly all agog about Europe, you have to wonder, how we can convince conservative voters to give up fascisting America? What has to happen to get them to quit MAGA and return to democracy?
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If 2020 was the safe bet election, then 2022 is the fuck around and find out election. The GQP done fucked around with our democracy, our rights, and our climate. It’s about time they found out.
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The Lincoln Project is putting out some sick burns on Trump world, but what are they really? Will they really appeal to MAGA-lite voters or are they just grifting liberal pwn the conservative dollars?
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Trump’s narcissism makes him predictable and manipulable. As severe narcissistic wounds mount, narcissistic collapse is possible. His narcissism predicts what The Country’s Biggest Loser do in the face of losing the election, his business, and freedom?
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Anger is now at the core of white identity. It is the foundation of grievance politics. You expect the base to be irrationally angry, but not the staffers and office holders, but you’re wrong. And it is that pervasive anger that is driving the fascism of the GOP.
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Short version: As it turns out, the GOP really is deliberately screwing their base and the rest of us for their own gain. Hunh?
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We know they’re lying. They know they’re lying. We know it will hurt people, even kill them. They know it will hurt people, even kill them. Yet, they lie anyway. How can that be?
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Could it be that the entire debacle of secret government documents secreted away in a poolside closet at Merde-a-Lardo (Thanks, @Tengrain) be due to Trump’s executive dysfunction as this @NBCNews seems to imply?
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We all KNOW that Trump was selling US secrets to China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia, right? But, his diagnosis as an unproductive malignant narcissist tells us much much more.
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The FBI raided Mar-a-Lago looking for top secret stolen documents Trump was selling to our enemies, and MAGA looses its mind. How does partisanship affect how we remember events?
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The GOP — and it is THE GOP — had multiple plots to coup against the US. You can’t keep track of them without a program! See how bad it really was!
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